Scrum and Agile coaching and some playing with Lego

Things I do

What can you expect to get from the services at iFacilitate

Certified Coaching

As a Certified Enterprise Coach I can provide hands-on experience and more insights into the Scrum model and help Scrum masters, Product owners, teams and everyone else involved to adapt to these new ways of working.

Lego Serious Play

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is an innovative, experiential process designed to enhance innovation and business performance.

Various training

One important aspect of being a coach is to educate people. Not only by just coaching but also with dedicated training.

I do more

Apart from facilitation as a Agile coach and as Lego Serious Play Facilitator, I also do more like Public speaking and OpenSpaces Facilitation.

Testimonials

It’s a pleasure working with Erwin. He takes responsibility and always willing to help colleagues if necessary. Knows what it takes to lead a both strategic as creative project. Colleagues as well as clients like to participate in his projects, since he’s willing to look at things from different perspectives, though always from a positive one.

Erwin is a real professional who is always open to hear different opinions, analyze them objectively and find working solutions to them. He achieved to add big value to our software development process to work according to the Agile manifesto. He influenced me a lot about Scrum and he thought me a lot about it. I’m glad I had the chance to work with him.

Erwin is an excellent (software) trainer. As a trainer Erwin knows the product well but is first and foremost a good teacher who understands how users need to interact with the product and get results from it. He is willing to provide users with the straight goods on using the product, such as showing you work-arounds to product idiosyncrasies.

Erwin has the power to move things and people that appear immobile. His subtle but persuasive approach empowers others to change direction and move forward. I have had the pleasure to work with him on a few projects and his input was not only valuable it also helped us achieve our targets and get surprising results. He is a true coach and a fine addition to any Scrum or project team.

To me Erwin is a friendly and open minded guy whom regularly participates in Agile events and meet ups. Either as an active participant (Open Space / Agile Coach Camp NL) or as a speaker/presentator (Lean Coffee, Agile Holland and NL scrum). He does that with calm enthusiasm which is inspring to me. Especially when it comes to LEGO Serious Play I’ve seen him at his best.

Stuff I write

Often I venture into companies that already started to use some sort of Agile way of working like with Scrum or Kanban. When it concerns a large company, frameworks like Scrum or Kanban most of the time aren’t enough. So scaling methodologies are available like LeSS (Large Scale Scrum), SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or Nexus.[…]

A while ago I read a parody of the Agile Manifesto at a Agile Coach Gathering. Myself and other coaches laughed about this. It is often that when agile coaches meet that we laugh about things. And sometimes we cry a little. We laugh because somethime this is the only logical thing to do. We[…]

The Agile Manifesto was written in February of 2001 by seventeen independent-minded software practitioners . While the participants didn’t agree about much, they found consensus around four main values. For those of you who are not aware they are as follows. We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others[…]

“Hi we want to hire a Agile coach with LeSS or SAFe Certification. He or she will provide our teams with some training.” Well I hate to bring this to you, but this does not work. The first big question you have to ask yourself as a company is “why”. Why do you want to[…]

Let’s face it. The Curriculum Vitae (CV) does not work. Curriculum vitae is a Latin expression which can be loosely translated as [the] course of [my] life according to Wikipedia and is used by many of as to show to potential employers what we have done with our professional lives. It is a sum of[…]